CASE STUDIES

Head in the Cloud

Central London Property company’s IT requirement was to have all of the benefits of a server and a scalable IT infrastructure without the costs of maintaining their own in-house equipment.

Client Background

Networklife Group IT brief was to design and implement a solution that would address the points below.

The final solution must be:

Robust, secure and reliable

Limit Hardware Costs

Limit in-house equipment

Cost effective and scalable

Backed up and fully transferable

Reduced maintenance, repair and upgrade costs

The Solution

Networklife Recommended:
Hosted solution – where Networklife Group IT provide the servers and the software hosted in our Data Centre. The Client would then use remote desktop amongst other technologies to access their servers & data.
Netorklife provide a second set of backup servers/software located in their sister office, in case the primary servers should ever fail.
A monthly charge applies which covers your share of the server rental, use of applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, hosted exchange for email and calendars, and all data backing up and system maintenance.

Conclusions

There are several compelling reasons as to why a hosted solution would be the first choice these include:
• Freedom from servers, software licensing and other maintenance issues
• Your business can be securely operated from anywhere at anytime

Two for the price of one

Client Background

Central London Investment company had reached the time when they needed to upgrade their IT infrastructure, they had two ageing servers that were out of manufacturer’s warranty.
Networklife Group IT brief was to design and implement a solution that would address all of the following points.

Issues to Address

Server Hardware more than 5 years old

Multiple Servers used

Cost Reduction

Improve efficiency

Increase speed and reliability

Benefit from automatic switching from one service to another identical service if the primary service fails

Backup strategy that allows fast data restoration in case of loss or failure

The Solution

Networklife Group IT Recommended a high end server with a powerful processor, ample RAM and multiple hard drives in a “raid” configuration (meaning that if one drives fails another seamlessly takes over) and of course dual power supplies. This server was then further sub- divided into multiple “virtual” server’s utilising Microsoft Hyper V technology (thus one single server undertakes the work of multiple physical servers).

The Benefits

Reduced capital cost

Worry Free Backup

Instant recovery in event of failure

Reduced running costs, maintenance, upgrades and repairs

Enhanced network performance

Conclusions

At the time of writing; the customer has had the server with Hyper V technology for more than 6 month with the smallest of teething troubles (no server downtime at all). The project has been a complete success with careful planning all of the potential pitfalls have been avoided these include:

Complete data migration

Successful integration with the host network

Get In touch with us on 084 5680 2014 to see how Virtualisation can work for your business too

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